16 MARCH 1+, 193(, bastard vowel in which both original a's are concealed, along with two or three other a's that climbed aboard in the night. The key to pro- nouncing cinemaddict is in knowing how to prolong and extend the a sound until its rightful quantity is restored, which can be accomplished only by bleating. Open the mouth and say sin- . , d . I-maa-aaaa lct. A friend of ours, now thirty-seven years old, who took to stuttering at the age of thirty-five attributes his speech defect to the word A A Administrator. But although it was a Timeword that brought on his trouble, it was, strangely enough, another Timeword that even- tually was the means of curing him. Poor, stuttering, redfaced Earl Lawley got trapped in the middle of einemaudi- ence one day and couldn't get out. Held fast bY,the syllable mau, which he kept murmuring over and over, he was a pitiable sight. Many a trapped animal has had to do just what courageous, stuttering, redfaced Earl Lawley did: he calmly gnawed off the tip of his tongue and wriggled free. A GUIDé "ro THE PRONUNCIATION OF WOR.DS IN ((TIMé" .: . . - I T is one thing to read Time; it is another to pronounce the words correctly. All of us recognize, for example, in reading the weekly news- magazine, that the word cinemaddict is a happy marriage of the word cinema with the word addict, and that the word presumably means "one who frequents the movies;" but to date there has been no serious study of such word for- mations with a view to establishing the pronunciation-on the wild chance that some day the words might be ut- tered out loud. New 1 T orkerworthy is this attempt of mine to suggest a handy table of reference by which such remarkable words may become part of the living, spoken tongue, instead of just dumb. Unlike that of most persons, much of my reading is done aloud. Even when I read silently, I move my lips and form every syllable; thus my need to know how a word sounds is a very real one. Prior to the Roosevelt administra- tion it did not occur to me to explore the phonetics of Timelanguage, but when, one day, I stumbled on the expression "RFChairman Jones," I knew that I would either have to work out a prac- tical sound pattern for such elisions or cancel my subscription, which still had a year and five months to run. One's first impulse in pronouncing such an adheren t noun as RFC hairman is to treat It as one does the name Mdivani-simply not sound what I call thè "impos- sible capitals." The word then becomes just Chairman. This is obviously in- complete and un- satisfactory; the word loses its de- finitive quality. One next tries supplying the missing punctua- tion marks, and the noun becomes R. F. Chairman. But this, too, is un- satisfactory and confusing. Shorn of the C in R.F.C., the expression is politically meaningless, probably politi- cally un wise, and looks almost like a proper name, as though one were read- ing bout a man named R. F. Chair- man Jones (his full name, we'll say, ( \ , '} - lJJ,.o1w. .... . is Robert Fairfax Chairman Jones). Such a pronunciation is untenable. One then resorts to pronouncing the word as nearly as possible to the way it looks, which is accomplished by puckering the lips, screwing the mouth round and round, and lingering over the impossible capitals so that they acquire an extra weight, which tends to break up the pharyngeal clot. The result is some- thing like this: Rrr-u ff-chair' -nzan J ones. This I have found to be at once the most difficult and the most sat- isfying way. It is, I am bold enough to state, the correct pronunciation of the word. The same rule holds for all similar bureaucratic Timenouns. Some- times it becomes necessary to aspirate the preliminary capitals. Thus, W P A d- m,inistrator Williams is correctly pro- nounced W wh-hu' -pad-min" is-tra-tor Williams. N ow let us look at the word cine- maddict. Here we have two words joined together and made one. The difficulty is the dropped a, which, al- though better for you than a fried a, is none too easy on a weak stomach. To the inquiring mind, the question im- mediately arises, which a is gone-the final a of cinema, or the initial a of addict? The question is well taken. Without answering it, one can't make an intelligent attempt to place the ac- cent and pro- nounce the word. If one believes, as many Easterners do, that the a was taken from cine- ma, then one should accent the penult, and the word is sin-i-mad' diet, stressed like the vvord mathe- matics. If, how- ever, one believes that the a was taken from ad- dict, then the pronunciation ob- viously is sin' i- mad-die t" . (N ote : Some Time- unworthy readers have highhandedly changed the final t to k, cut the word up again into two parts, and simply say cinema dick.) I hold that none of these pronunciations is correct. It is my be- lief that the a in cinemaddict rightly belongs neither to cinema nor to addict, but that it is a highly concentrated, , I 'i " . 1 O NCE the above general principles of pronunciation are grasped, the other queer words in Time fall into types and can be worked out. Often it is merely a question of where the word properly divides up. Realmleader, for instance, is pronounced rë" al-mlëd'- ere Newshawk is noosh-awk'. News- h . "" h ' h wort )' IS new-swur t y, or swar t y. There are a few purely arbitrary rules which one must memorize. Radiorator, I have found, is best when simplified still further, and made radiator, or chumley. Cinemactress, instead of re- quiring the middle bleat, as in cinemad- dict, is pronounced by leaving the a with cinema, restoring and transposing the vanished a in actress, and giving the primary accent to the last syllable. Thus, . II . , Th d d szn z-ma-ca-tress . e wor up use as a verb becomes oop, as, "he ooped sales." -E. B. W. . BROTHERHOOD OF MAN DEPARTMENT [Fronz the Brown Daily Herald] Dr. Yerkes, who is the director of the Laboratories of Psychobiology at Yale, is the leading authority on the psychology, intelligence, and biology of anthropoids. Among the books he has written on the subject are "Almost Human," "The Mind of the Gorilla," "The Great Apes," and "Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expression." He is also author of "Psy- chological Examining in the U. S. Army."